User blog comment:JoePlay/Anonymous Sweeps/@comment-69.126.130.206-20111015213139

1) There were no consistent rules of spelling at that time. Any word, including a name, could be spelled a number of ways, and no one cared. 2) William Shakespeare of Stratford was not "uneducated." The local grammar school (to which John Shakespeare could certainly afford to send his son) provided a classical education. 3) So really, the whole "authorship controversy" is based on nothing but sheer snobbery--the assumption that only a nobleman could be the greatest author in the English canon.